Defendant also sold access to Domino's Pizza domain and other targets; enters plea deal with feds

Consider yourself a "l337 h@X0r"? Black and gray hats might want to leave their egos at the door after comparing their own illegal exploits to those of Andrew "green" Jackson Miller, a 24-year-old native of Lancaster and Devon, Penn.

But when Mr. Miller offered to sell them access to the LBL supercomputer for $50,000 USD they arrested him. Mr. Miller was taken into custody in June 2012 and charge with numerous computer fraud offenses. His cohort Robert "Intel" Burns -- another UIA member -- pled guilty first, offering up evidence that the court used against Mr. Miller.

Faced with a likely unsuccessful fight to prove his innocence, on Tuesday Mr. Miller entered a plea deal [PDF] in which he reduced what could have been a sentence of 20 years, to 18 months behind bars, in exchange to pleading guilty to violations of:

The people who deal drugs that addict people, whether it is flatly illegal drugs like heroine or meth or prescription drugs outside of a doctor's approved use, do more than jsut kill people. Those drugs eat their souls. They leave useless or even violent husks that the rest of society pays to keep alive. Very, very, very few make it out of drug addictions like that and become useful members of society. Moreover, it removes the addicts from being useful members of society.

There have been many Hollywood and music stars in the news in recent years dying or becoming these useless husks over the past decade. How many get out? OK, RDJ is one example, but the rate in which people get out is tiny, and the cost behind it is HUGE. It costs near $100,000 in medical and living costs for someone who wants to get out to actually get out, and more than 90% of those who go through detox and addiction treatment go back to those drugs. That's more than most of these people will make in their lifetime. They can never pay that back to society. More often, those people die of it.

Dealing addicting drugs is much more damaging to society, and to the addicts and their families, than murder. The ones who deal this crap are far, far worse than murderers.

Often, no, they don't. Most people simply don't have the strength of will to overcome an addiction of the magnitude of cocaine or opium, let alone meth or heroine. Once they're in, they're stuck. Once someone gets them to try it once or twice, they're addicted, and they won't ever have the will to get out. It really is that tough.

I was addicted to nicotine for a while. it took a lot just to get off that, and that's barely half the strength of a cocaine addiction, and far, far weaker than a meth addiction. I know how tough nicotine is. Many illegal drugs must be impossible. That's why success rates of the few people who try to get away are so low, and only about 10% of those who get addicted even try to get away from it.

On top of that, there is a cost to getting clean, and it is much, much more than most addicts could afford. A six week stay in a low cost rehab clinic is about $100,000. Lindsay Lohan's stay at the rather upscale clinic was up over 5 times that. Lindsay Lohan's stay was ordered by the state as part of a criminal conviction, so the state had to pay for it. Those who try to do it on their own frequently find they can't afford it.

They have THE OPTION of a CHOICE, people who are murdered DO NOT. I can't believe you are actually arguing this.

Simply put, equating someone who sells drugs to be worse than someone who murders another human being and that you feel that a drug peddler should get life while someone who TAKES ANOTHERS life is absolutely idiotic.

alcohol addiction is strong, yes. It's probably stronger than nicotine addiction. It destroys lives and kills, yes, but over 80% of people who try to quit drinking are able to quit for life.

However, it still isn't even close to the strength of a meth or heroine addiction. What's worse is that a human body gets physically addicted to meth or heroine after only a few uses. There is no such thing as a recreational user, like there is with alcohol. the human nervous system can't handle that.

For heroine, the drug that has killed so many Hollywood and music stars, including a few of my favorites, the nervous system stops being able to function correctly after only a few uses, and a full detox is necessary to get it out of someone's system, and that process kills in nearly 50% of ones that are done without medical monitoring. Even with medical monitoring, it is fatal nearly 5% of the time. After a detox, it takes days to weeks for the nervous system to heal enough to function without issue without the drug.

What's even more troublesome with heroine is that it requires more and more to get high the more it is used, which is why there are so many overdoses that kill among the rich. They have the money to keep on raising the dose and eventually overdo it. Among the regular people, addicts frequently wind up beggars or prostitutes before they can get to the point of overdosing. They'll get some windfall, cross the path of some "generous" person who gives them money thinking they'll use it for food, and the person will get enough heroine to overdose. One of my favorite actors, Glenn Quinn, had something like this happen. He wasn't down to the point of being a beggar, but he was mostly broke. A friend gave him money to help him get into an apartment, and instead he used it to get a bunch of heroine and killed himself with an overdose right in the guy's living room.

Addiction is insidious. Those who push it are downright evil. you think there are no monsters in this world? drug dealers are monsters of the most insidious kind.

I'm sorry mate but a lot of what you wrote is pure bunkem. There is nothing that I am aware of that is addictive after just 1 or 2 hits, everything takes a degree of habitual doses to form a habit, ts not once and you are hooked for any drug.

There are many users of hard drugs that will use it a few times and realise that they are heading down a slippery path and get the F out of there. I have a lot of experience with addiction of all kinds and to suggest that alcohol addiction is not in the same league as a lot of illegal drugs is just incorrect.

Most addicts that get clean relapse, whether it be "hard drugs" or alcohol, 80% of alcoholics staying clean is an absolute fantasy and is not anywhere near the realms of what is realistic. For alcoholics the true stat is closer to 20% stay sober for 90days and the rate drops significantly past that point. This is probably higher than a lot of drugs but the networks and help available for these "sufferers" is a lot more robust than the treatments for "harder" drugs.

The truth is that all addiction is hard to overcome, most people relapse at some point and this goes for all drugs.

What the guy was saying about the only difference between a drug dealer and the guy behind the counter at your local supermarket is that one drug is legal and the other is not. This is not an opinion this is an absolute irrefutable fact.

Alcohol is a drug, illegal drugs are drugs; alcohol is addictive, some illegal drugs are addictive; alcohol kills, some illegal drugs kill. Deal with it.

What point? That dealers of hard drugs should not get harsh prison sentences because they 'aren't hurting anyone'?

Except for the fact that hard drugs kill a whole lot of people every year, not to mention the violence that organized drug cartels inflict. More than 100,000 people are murdered every year in mexico by drug cartels. Let that sink in for a moment. 100,000 people murdered. When you buy hard drugs from a dealer in the US, where do you think that money is ultimately going?